Rendering of the Arhaus Furniture store to be built behind the current Culver Road Armory. The design is by Philip Michael Brown.

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In a reversal of retail trends, a popular home furnishings store in moving from the region's premier high-end mall to a renovated urban lifestyle center in the middle of the city.

Arhaus Furniture next May will move its store from Victor's Eastview Mall to Culver Road Armory in Rochester, right near the Park Avenue and Upper Monroe neighborhoods.

It will take up 14,000 square feet of a new freestanding, single-story structure under construction behind the main development. The new location will have nearly 6,000 square feet more than its current Eastview store, the company said in a news ...